Ben and the Emancipation Proclamation
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Young Benjamin Holmes, a slave in Charleston who has taught himself to read, reads Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation to his fellow slaves in prison.
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The early life of Benjamin C. Holmes who was born a slave in South Carolina in the 1840s is told in this story. Ben secretly learns to read, a skill that was forbidden to slaves, and he eventually shares the news that slaves have been set free with the Emancipation Proclamation to a group of other slaves. It is a triumphant moment.
